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Ophrys garganica  (E.NELSON) O.DANESCH & E.DANESCH  subsp. garganica

Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.

Garganica has been described in 1962 by NELSON as a subspecies of Ophrys sphegodes, but according to the strict ICBN rules. The married couple DANESCH repeated the description in 1975 validly on material from Promontorio del Gargano in southeastern Italy. Its name is partly misleading, because one can find it in large parts of central and southern Italy, too, as well as in Sicily and Sardinia. As the similar western mediterranean Ophrys garganica subsp. passionis it is pollinated by Andrena pilipes (formerly: A. carbonaria).

Authors:
	E.NELSON:		Erich Nelson (1897 - 1980), Austrian botanist
	O.DANESCH:		Othmar Danesch (1919 - 2014), Austrian architect and botanist
	E.DANESCH:		Edeltraud Danesch (1922 - 1996), Austrian writer, wife of Othmar Danesch
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals

Etymology:
	Ophrys:		Greek plant name, from ophrys = eyebrow
	garganica:		from Promontorio del Monte Gargano

Fig. 1:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid I Toscana, Alberese 28.3.1998

Fig. 2:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid I Toscana, Alberese 28.3.1998

Fig. 3:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid I Promontorio del Gargano, Coppa di Mezzo 26.4.2003

Fig. 4:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid I Promontorio del Gargano, Coppa di Mezzo 26.4.2003

Fig. 5:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid I Lecce 8.4.1998

Fig. 6:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid Sicily, Godrano 30.3.1998

Fig. 7:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid Sicily, Passo delle Pantanelle 31.3.1998

Fig. 8:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid Sicily, Passo delle Pantanelle 31.3.1998

Fig. 9:  Ophrys garganica subsp. garganica / Gargano Bee Orchid Sicily, Passo delle Pantanelle 31.3.1998

   

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